(1) Background: Although the infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus affects primarily the lungs, it is well known that associated cardiovascular (CV) complications are important contributors to the increased morbidity and mortality of COVID-19. Thus, in some situations, their diagnosis is overlooked, and during recovery, some patients continue to have symptoms enclosed now in the post-acute COVID-19 syndrome. (2) Methods: In 102 patients, under 55 years old, and without a history of CV diseases, all diagnosed with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, we assessed by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) four patterns of abnormalities frequently overlapping each other. Their evolution was followed at 3 and 6 months. (3) Results: In 35 subjects, we assessed impaired left ventricular function (LVF), in 51 increased systolic pulmonary artery pressure, in 66 diastolic dysfunction (DD) with normal LVF, and in 23 pericardial effusion/thickening. All TTE alterations alleviated during the follow-up, the best evolution being observed in patients with pericarditis, and a considerably worse one in those with DD, thus with a reduction in severity (4) Conclusions: In patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, several cardiac abnormalities may be assessed by TTE, most of them alleviating in time. Some of them, especially DD, may persist, raising the presumption of chronic alterations.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, transthoracic echocardiography, systolic pulmonary artery pressure, right ventricular dysfunction, Left ventricular function, diastolic dysfunction, pericardial effusion/thickening, 【초록키워드】 Evolution, Diseases, severity, Infection, Diagnosis, Symptom, Lungs, Patient, Complication, morbidity and mortality, Follow-up, patients, pulmonary artery pressure, dysfunction, overlapping, alteration, syndrome, abnormality, Affect, diastolic, diagnosed, subjects, reduction in, alterations, raising, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, TTE, ventricular, 【제목키워드】 individual, Identified,